There's a difference between (a) there isn't a football dispenser in my new car, and (b) my new car actively prevents me from putting a football dispenser in it, and the car manufacturers actively working to make it illegal for me to do so.
Common use/misuse aside...
If I know you, then you're the person whom I know.
If you know that I know you, then you're the person who knows whom I know.
If it can be replaced by "him/her", then it's "whom".
If it can be replaced by "he/she", then it's "who".
As always - it's not who you know, it's whom you know.
"Fuck doing business with India or Indian corporation/nationals," does not, by itself, mean "Fuck India, I'm only doing business with the US / China where they don't do this." If anything, it carries with it the implication that it's also not OK for the US, China, or any other governmental entity to do this either. You've created a false dichotomy.
If the fact is unambiguously true you'll also be able to find it somewhere other than Wikipedia.
Yes, but Wikipedia is a great place to find information that's unambiguously true. Such information is usually worded plainly there, unlike many other sources I find myself having to use (often published journal articles that define the term within the context of the research). If no parties object to the use of Wikipedia (or, rather, "this piece of information retrieved from this URL on this date at this time") then there is no problem, and it's probably just a stepping stone for both sides to use in performing contentious dissemination anyway (otherwise, you wouldn't be in court, you'd be sitting there agreeing on definitions and such).
When parts of your body are potentially valuable to society, they're lost unless you donate them, which is what this story is about.
So, in this case, nothing of value was lost.
What's "Troll" about that?
And nothing of value was lost.
Flawed by design for this purpose. I can see all the words I typed without hitting "Preview", so "Preview" does not add value here.
It's best used to make sure that formatting works and to make sure you know how slow Slashdot is.
You're not selling a product.
Maybe it's because I'm not browsing low enough, but the feel of the threads on this story seems to be along the lines of "OS X will go by the wayside, and we will be forced to program iOS apps on iOS, a platform developed for phones and tablets, or else the iOS SDK will be prohibitively expensive." I have two responses to that.
First, what happens when Apple stops selling Macs with traditional OS X in favor of the desktop progeny of iOS? Those who would not be developing for iOS anyway (shot in the dark: most Apple consumers) may or may not applaud the decision and will probably not be majorly impacted by the decision. Those who would develop or consider developing for the platform (shot in the dark: most people with negative feelings in the comment threads here) are likely faced with serious barriers to entry for development on the platform.
Has Apple traditionally been known for making it difficult to develop for their platforms? I don't know. Would they seriously consider the impact on developers for their unified desktop/phone/tablet platform before they make a decision like this? Absolutely. If developers are going to have a comparatively hard time developing for iOS, they will both do it less and do it worse.
Second, if Apple does finally stick with pushing only a desktop version of iOS and you don't like it, then there is no better time (in my book) to move away from Apple (or not move to Apple) and support a Linux distribution whose interface more closely resembles OS X. In the technology's current state, I struggle to find fault in Mac OS X proper, and iOS works pretty well on my iPod Touch. To take iOS and put it onto every new Apple desktop/laptop computer, even with serious usability tweaks to be at least something like what I would want in a desktop/laptop computer, would be a big "fuck you!" to everybody I know that does a lot of serious work on a Mac that wouldn't translate well at all into an iOS environment.
("everybody I know that does a lot of serious work on a Mac" uses their Mac because of OS X's convenient and consistent interfaces and would be using a Linux distribution otherwise.)
If you don't want iOS, and that's all that Apple is selling, then you know better than to buy it, I hope.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
